How to uninstall xnview shellextention?

[murthy363]

I tried to uninstall shellextention without any success.
It is not found in control panel > add/remove programs.
I tried to delete the file xnview shellex.dll from dos mode without success.

Then how to remove it?

Of course, shell extention is working alright and is useful. But if I need to remove it some later time, how to do it, was my question.

Thanks in advance for your response.

[foxyshadis]

In commmand prompt in xnview folder:

regsvr32 -u shellex.dll
taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
del shellex.dll
explorer

You don't actually have to delete it, just unregistering and restarting the shell is enough, though.

[XnTriq]

• FAQ: How to enable / disable Shell Extension (in ZIP version)
• 1.90: if Shell Extension is already in use, it can't be

[helmut]

Good infos from foxyshadis and good links from XnTriq.

@foxyshadis: I'm not quite clear what your above commands do and why these are needed. Perhaps you can explain a bit. Then we can decide whether these are good additions for the FAQ "How to enable / disable Shell Extension (in ZIP version)".

You don't actually have to delete it, just unregistering and restarting the shell is enough, though.

I guess this should say something like: "You don't actually have to delete it, just stopping explorer, unregistering and restarting explorer is enough, though."

[Clo]

—> murthy363

Hello !

• You can also use ShellExView, a very good Shell-extensions manager, freeware, multilingual (for me)…

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[foxyshadis]

It seems my commands were overkill, after testing - there are badly behaved plugins that require a full restart of the shell (explorer), which logging off/on or rebooting also does, to stop them from going, but xnview's is immediate, that's nice. (You still have to do that to delete the file, if you really want to.)

In teh faq, the whole path to regsvr32 isn't needed, since it's always on the system path. Even in 9x, if the shellex works there. No need for separate versions per OS, but that's a really minor thing. Any reason xnview doesn't bundle those as batch files with the installation?

In a batch file in the same folder, the command simplifies to:
regsvr32 -s "%~dp0\XnViewShellExt.dll"
(with -u in the other) where %~dp0 expands to the drive and path of the batch file itself, without the name. No hardcoded path needed, and no weirdness if opened from a network drive.

[murthy363]

• You can also use ShellExView, a very good Shell-extensions manager, freeware, multilingual (for me)…

Thanks Clo for the link. I installed and am getting familiarized with it.
Very small footprint and looks to be very useful too.